Anti-PsbD | D2 protein of PSII

Product no: AS06 146

AS06 146  |  Clonality: Polyclonal  |  Host: Rabbit  |  Reactivity: [global antibody] for A. thaliana, Anabaena 7120, D. brightwellii, H. vulgare, C.reinhardtii, C. zofingiensis, L. corniculatus, N. tabacum, O. sativa, P. sativum, P. vulgaris, P. tricornutum, T. pratense, S. alba, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, T. guillardii, T. pseudonana, Triticale, U. prolifera, Z. mays

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  • Product Info
  • Immunogen:

    KLH-comjugated synthetic peptide derived from the C-terminal of known PsbD sequences including Arabidopsis thaliana P56761, Hordeum vulgare P11849, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii P06007, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 P20898

    Host: Rabbit
    Clonality: Polyclonal
    Purity: Serum
    Format: Lyophilized
    Quantity: 50 µl
    Reconstitution: For reconstitution add 50 µl of sterile water
    Storage: Store lyophilized/reconstituted at -20°C; once reconstituted make aliquots to avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles. Please remember to spin the tubes briefly prior to opening them to avoid any losses that might occur from material adhering to the cap or sides of the tube.
    Tested applications: Clear-native PAGE (CN-PAGE), Western blot (WB)
    Recommended dilution: 1: 10 000 (CN-PAGE), 1: 5000 - 1 : 50 000 (WB)
    Expected | apparent MW: 39.4 | 28-30 kDa
  • Reactivity
  • Confirmed reactivity: Arabidopsis thaliana, Anabaena 7120, Ditylum brightwellii, Horderum vulgare, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Chromochloris zofingiensis, Echinola crus-galli, Emiliania huxleyi, Lotus corniculatus, Nicotiana tabacum, Oryza sativa, picocyanobacteria, Pisum sativum, Phaseolus vulgaris, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Trifolium pratense, Skeletonema costatum (diatom), Sinapsis alba, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, Synechocystis sp. PCC6803, Thalassiosira guillardii, Thalassiosira pseudonana, Triticale, Ulva prolifera, Zea mays
    Predicted reactivity: Aegilops tauschii, Brassica napus, Cannabis sativa, Capsicum annuum, Centrolepsis monogyna, Chromera velia, Crocosphaera watsonii, Cyanidioschyzon merolae,  Fischerella sp., Galdieria sulphuraria,Glycine max, Glycine soja, Leiosporoceros dussii, Cucumis sativa, Manihot esculenta, Marchantia polymorpha, Microcystis aeruginosa, Nannochloropsis, Panax ginseng, Petermannia cirrosa, Pinus thunbergii, Physcomitrium patens, Pinus strobus, Populus trichocarpa, Ricinus communis, Solanum tuberosumSpinacia oleracea, Solanum lycopersicum. Triticum aestivum, Utricularia alpina, Vitis vinifera, Vitrella brassicaformis

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    Not reactive in: No confirmed exceptions from predicted reactivity are currently known
  • Application Examples
  • western blot using anti-PsbD antibodies

    2 µg of total protein from (1) Arabidopsis thaliana leaf extracted with Agrisera Protein Extraction Buffer, PEB (AS08 300), (2) Hordeum vulgare leaf extracted with PEB, (3) Chlamydomonas reinhardtii total cell extracted with PEB, (4) Synechococcus sp. 7942 total cell extracted with PEB, (5) Anabaena sp. total cell extracted with PEB were separated on  4-12% NuPage (Invitrogen) LDS-PAGE and blotted 1h to PVDF. Blots were blocked immediately following transfer in 2% blocking reagent in 20 mM Tris, 137 mM sodium chloride pH 7.6 with 0.1% (v/v) Tween-20 (TBS-T) for 1h at room temperature with agitation. Blots were incubated in the primary antibody at a dilution of 1: 50 000 for 1 h/RT with agitation. The antibody solution was decanted and the blot was rinsed briefly twice, then washed once for 15 min and 3 times for 5 min in TBS-T at room temperature with agitation. Blots were incubated in secondary antibody (anti-rabbit IgG horse radish peroxidase conjugated, recommended secondary antibody AS09 602) diluted to 1:50 000 in 2% blocking solution for 1h at room temperature with agitation. The blots were washed as above and developed for 5 min with chemiluminescent detection reagent according the manufacturers instructions. Images of the blots were obtained using a CCD imager (FluorSMax, Bio-Rad) and Quantity One software (Bio-Rad).



    Western blot using anti-PsbD antibodies

    1 μg of chlorophyll from Pisum sativum (1), Zea mays, mesophyll (2) and bundle sheath (3), Echinochloa crus-galli, mesophyll (4) and bundle sheath (5), Arabidopsis thaliana (6) chloroplasts extracted with 0.4 M sorbitol, 50 mM Hepes NaOH, pH 7.8, 10 mM NaCl, 5 mM MgCl 2 and 2 mM EDTA were loaded to lanes. Samples were denatured with Laemmli buffer at 75°C for 5 min and were separated on 12% SDS-PAGE, and blotted 30 min to PVDF using wet transfer. Blot was blocked with 5% milk for 2h at room temperature (RT) with agitation. Blot was incubated in the primary antibody Anti-PsbD at a dilution of 1: 5000 in 1% milk in TBS-T overnight at 4°C with agitation. The antibody solution was decanted and the blot was washed 4 times for 5 min in TBS-T at RT with agitation. Blot was incubated in secondary antibody (anti-rabbit IgG HRP conjugated, from Agrisera, AS09 602) diluted to 1:20 000 in 1 % milk in TBS-T for 1h at RT with agitation. The blot was washed 5 times for 5 min in TBS-T and 2 times for 5 min in TBS, and developed for 1 min with 1.25 mM luminol, 0.198 mM coumaric acid and 0.009% H 2 O 2 in 0.1 M Tris- HCl, pH 8.5. Exposure time in ChemiDoc System was 14 seconds.

    Courtesy of Dr. Wioleta Wasilewska-Dębowska, University of Warsaw, Poland

    Western blot using anti-PsbD antibodies


    Quantity control of chlorophyll amount loading onto gel. From 0,25 μg to 2,0 μg of chlorophyll from Pisum sativum chloroplasts were loaded to lanes. All steps of experiments were the same as described above.

    Courtesy of Dr. Wioleta Wasilewska-Dębowska, University of Warsaw, Poland

    Application examples:

    Reactant: Plant

    Application: Western Blotting

    Pudmed ID: 27590049

    Journal: BMC Plant Biol

    Figure Number: 9A

    Published Date: 2016-09-02

    First Author: Mazur, R., Sadowska, M., et al.

    Impact Factor: 4.142

    Open Publication

    Changes of PSII and PSI antenna and core protein levels. Proteins from control and Tl-treated white mustard leaves were separated by SDS-PAGE followed by immunodetection with antibodies against Lhcb1, Lhcb2, Lhca1 (antenna proteins) and D1, D2, CP43, PsbO, PsaA (core proteins). Samples were loaded on the equal amount of chlorophyll (0.25 ?g). Description of samples abbreviation as given in the legend to Fig. 3


    Reactant: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Green Alga)

    Application: Western Blotting

    Pudmed ID: 28466860

    Journal: Nat Commun

    Figure Number: 5A

    Published Date: 2017-05-03

    First Author: Fu, H. Y., Picot, D., et al.

    Impact Factor: 13.783

    Open Publication

    Accumulation of photosynthetic complexes in the mutant strains.Cells were grown in TAP medium at 25?°C under LED white light (8??mol photons m?2?s?1) and collected at the mid-log phase. Two independent lines are shown for each construct. Protein samples were loaded on an equal chlorophyll basis (0.5??g per lane), and a dilution series of WT samples is shown for semi-quantitative comparison. Antibodies against essential subunits of PSII (D2), PSI (PsaA), cytochrome b6f (PetA) and ATP synthase (AtpB) probed the accumulation of the respective photosynthetic complexes. Numbers on the left side of the blots are molecular weights in kD. See Supplementary Fig. 9 for the uncropped blot images.


    Reactant: Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress)

    Application: Western Blotting

    Pudmed ID: 31240258

    Journal: Commun Biol

    Figure Number: 2A

    Published Date: 2019-06-27

    First Author: Pralon, T., Shanmugabalaji, V., et al.

    Impact Factor: None

    Open Publication

    Thylakoid protein phosphorylation and state transitions are disturbed after high light treatment in pgr6 background. a Total protein extracts of 4-week-old wild type (WT), pgr6-1, pgr6?2, sps2 and stn7/stn8 analysed by immunoblotting with anti-phosphothreonine antibody; the principal thylakoid phospho proteins are indicated on the right according to their size. Core photosystem II proteins D1 (PsbA) and D2 (PsbD) are indicated as a single band due to their poor resolution. Actin was used as a loading control. b Lhcb1 and Lhcb2 phosphorylation levels were visualised after separation on Phostag™-pendant acrylamide gels. The upper band corresponds to the phosphorylated form (p-), stn7/stn8 double mutant is a non-phosphorylated control. c Average transient of the variable room temperature chlorophyll fluorescence measured during the transition from red (660nm) supplemented with far-red light (720nm) state 1 to pure red light state 2 (n?=?4 independent pots containing 2–3 plants). The fluorescence curves from pgr6 and sps2 are shifted on the x-axis to allow visualising the FMST1 and FMST2 values. The x-axis time scale refers to the wild-type curve. d Calculated quenching related to state transition (qT?=?(FMST1?–?FMST2)/FM), expressed as the percentage of FM that is dissipated by the state 1 to state 2 transition, of wild type (WT), pgr6?1 and sps2 under moderate light (120?mol?m?2?s?1) (ML) and after 3?h of high light (500?mol?m?2?s?1) (HL). Whiskers and box plot shows the minimum, first quartile, median, average, third quartile and maximum of each dataset (n?=?4 biologically independent samples); p-values are calculated via a two-tailed Student’s t test. e STN7 phosphorylation level visualised after separation on Phostag™-pendant acrylamide gels. The upper band corresponds to the phosphorylated form (p-), a protein sample from stn7/stn8 double mutant was loaded as a control for the antibody specificity. Uncropped images of the membranes displayed in a, b and e are available as Supplementary Fig. 11. Data points for items c, d are available as Supplementary data 2


    Reactant: Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress)

    Application: Western Blotting

    Pudmed ID: 32963291

    Journal: Sci Rep

    Figure Number: 3C

    Published Date: 2020-09-22

    First Author: Wang, L., Leister, D., et al.

    Impact Factor: 4.13

    Open Publication

    Photomorphogenesis is not significantly affected in ros1, nrpd1, nrpe1, rdr2 or ago4 mutant seedlings. (a) Phenotypes (upper panel) and the corresponding maximum quantum yields of PSII (Fv/Fm) (lower panel) of 4-day-old etiolated seedlings. Fv/Fm was measured with an imaging Chl fluorometer (Imaging PAM). Scale bar?=?1 cm. (b) Phenotypes (upper panel) and corresponding Fv/Fm values (lower panel) of 3-day-old etiolated seedlings which had been exposed to continuous light for 24 h. (c) Immunoblot analysis of the PSII core proteins (D1 and D2), Lhcb1 and FLU during greening of etiolated seedlings. WT seedlings were grown for 3 days in the dark and exposed to light for between 0 and 48 h, as indicated. Extracted total proteins were normalized with respect to fresh weight and fractionated by SDS-PAGE. Blots were then probed with antibodies raised against the individual proteins. Total proteins from 5-day-old WT seedlings grown under continuous light (LL) and LD conditions (LD) were used as positive controls. The total protein accumulation of each sample was visualized by staining the gel with Coomassie Blue R250 (C.B.). The figure was assembled from different blots (delineated by a black rectangle) and full-length blots are presented in Supplementary Fig. S7. (d) Immunoblot analysis of representative photosynthesis proteins of 3-day-old etiolated mutant seedlings which had been exposed to continuous light for 24 h. Immunoblot analysis was performed as in (c). The figure was assembled from different blots (delineated by a black rectangle) and full-length blots are presented in Supplementary Fig. S8. (e) Real-time PCR analyses of 3-day-old etiolated WT (Col-0) and mutant seedlings that had been exposed to continuous light for 24 h. Real-time PCR was performed with primers specific for the nuclear genes LHCB1.2, LHCB2.1, LHCB6, LHCA5, PSBP-1 and PSBTn, and the plastid genes psaA and atpB. Note that the primers for LHCB2.1 also amplify LHCB2.2 mRNA. Expression values are reported relative to the corresponding transcript levels in the WT and were normalized with respect to the expression level of ACTIN2. Data are shown as mean values?±?SD from three different plant pools.


    Reactant: Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress)

    Application: Western Blotting

    Pudmed ID: 33322466

    Journal: Biomolecules

    Figure Number: 7A

    Published Date: 2020-12-11

    First Author: Andreeva, A. A., Vankova, R., et al.

    Impact Factor: None

    Open Publication

    Immunoblot analysis of the photosynthetic proteins on the basis of equal total Ponceau S dye stained blot with proteins from leaves of wild type plants and pap1 mutant grown on MS medium in Petri dishes for four weeks under a 16 h light/8 h dark photoperiod at 23 °C with 100 ?E m?2 s?1. Proteins were visualized by immunoblotting using antibodies specific for RbcL, PsaB, PsbD, AtpB, RpoB, AccD and Lhcb2.4 proteins.


    Reactant: Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress)

    Application: Western Blotting

    Pudmed ID: 33629953

    Journal: Elife

    Figure Number: 6A

    Published Date: 2021-02-25

    First Author: Pipitone, R., Eicke, S., et al.

    Impact Factor: 7.448

    Open Publication

    Accumulation dynamics of photosynthesis-related proteins during de-etiolation.Three-day-old etiolated seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana were illuminated for 0 hr (T0), 4 hr (T4), 8 hr (T8), 12 hr (T12), 24 hr (T24), 48 hr (T48), 72 hr (T72), and 96 hr (T96) under white light (40 µmol/m2/s). (A) Proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE and transferred onto nitrocellulose membrane and immunodetected with antibodies against PsbA, PsbD, PsbO, PetC, PsaD, PsaC, Lhcb2, AtpC, ELIP, POR, phyA, HY5, and ACTIN proteins. (B–C) Quantification of PsbA, PetC, and PsaC during de-etiolation. Heatmap (B) was generated after normalization of the amount of each protein relative to the last time point (T96). Graph (C) corresponds to the absolute quantification of proteins at T96. Error bars indicate ± SD (n = 3). Quantification of photosystem-related proteins during de-etiolation is detailed in Figure 6—figure supplement 1.Figure 6—source data 1.Quantitative data for immunoblot analysis.Quantitative data for immunoblot analysis.Quantification of photosynthesis-related proteins.(A) Immunodetection of PsbA, PetC, and PsaC during de-etiolation. Dilutions were used for the later time points to avoid saturation of the signal. (B) Different bands were detected by Amersham Imager program and quantified by Image QuantTL (Amersham). (C) Calibration curves were created using recombinant proteins (Agrisera). Calibration curve composition: PsbA 10 ng (A; lane a), 5 ng (b), 2.5 ng (c), and 1.25 ng (d); PetC 10 ng (e), 5 ng (f), 2.5 ng (g), and 1.25 ng (h); PsaC 3 ng (i), 1.5 ng (l), 0.75 ng (m), and 0.325 ng (n). Data indicate mean ± SD (n = 3–4). Raw data and calculations are shown in Figure 6—source data 1.

  • Additional Information
  • Additional information: The peptide used to elicit this antibody has a perfect conservation across all full-length PsbD sequences from higher plants, lower plants, cyanobacteria and unicellular algae except: minor substitutions in some Prochlorococcus & Dinoflagellate sequences, The antibody should still work against these taxa, but it has not been tested yet, This antibody does not detect PsbA protein (D1),This product can be sold containing ProClin if requested
    Additional information (application):

    There is a confirmed cross-reaction with TLA1 protein in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

    For samples with a very low PSII content theremight be detection problems independent of the antibody. PSII proteins can vary in level depending upon liquid culture conditions. When the cells are in a stationary phase PSII content can drop to a very low level.

  • Background
  • Background:

    D2 protein (PsbD) forms the reaction core of PSII (Photosystem II) as a heterodimer with the D1 protein (PsbA). PsbD is homologous to the D1 protein, with slightly higher molecular mass of about 39.5 kDa. Accumulation of D2 protein is an important step in the assemply of the PSII reaction centre complex.

  • Product Citations
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  • Protocols
  • Agrisera Western Blot protocol and video tutorials

    Protocols to work with plant and algal protein extracts


    Oxygenic photosynthesis poster by prof. Govindjee and Dr. Shevela

    Z-scheme of photosynthetic electron transport by prof. Govindjee and Dr. Björn and Dr. Shevela



    Quantitative Immunoblotting in Plant Sciences using Global Antibodies


    Amanda Cockshutt1 & Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund2
    1.Environmental Proteomics NB Inc. Sackville NB CANADA,
    2.Agrisera AB, Vännäs, SWEDEN,

    Summary:
    Detecting and quantitating important proteins in plants and other photosynthetic organisms has become more practical and powerful with the application of quantitative immunoblotting using global antibodies which recognize proteins evenly across a wide range of taxa. While many tools are commercially available for the examination of medically relevant proteins in mammals, such tools have been lacking for the study of pressing questions in other organisms. Here we present the advantages of quantitative immunoblotting and the methodology necessary to apply these tools.

    Introduction | The exquisite specificity of the antibody antigen interaction has long been exploited by protein biochemists. Antibodies bind to small regions on proteins, termed epitopes, which often consist of only a few amino acids. This binding is highly specific
    and of high affinity. As each antibody recognizes only a small part of the whole protein, an immunogenic peptide can be selected using sequence alignments. This short peptide is highly conserved and exclusive to the protein under study. The resulting antibodies are then immunoreactive with the conserved peptide region within intact proteins derived from a number of species. We refer to these as Global Antibodies, and they provide both scientific and practical advantages. In non-medical areas such as plant sciences, comparative analyses across species, is often productive; Global Antibodies permit such cross-taxon studies with level detection efficiencies across wide taxonomic ranges. From a practical standpoint, a Global Antibody functioning across a wide taxonomic range reduces the cost of antibody production and stocking by creating a detection tool useful in a wide range of studies.
    The ELISA, or Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay, employs specific antibodies in a high through put application for the measurement of specific substances in samples of diverse origins. While some sample and antibody combinations can be optimized for detections using ELISA, others are less successful. This can be the result of antibodies with significant cross reactivities, samples that do not adhere optimally to the plate, a lack of quantitated standards or samples of variable quality that display differential reactivity in ELISA. A similar approach is the quantitative immunoblot. As such, it uses the same principles as the ELISA, a reliance on the highly specific antibody antigen interaction to measure the amount of a given protein in a complex mixture. The
    major distinguishing feature of this method is the inclusion of a step to electrophoretically separate the proteins in the sample according to their molecular weights. Thus, all samples can be solubilized using a standardized procedure and analyzed concurrently for a number of interesting proteins. The separation step allows the researcher to be more confident that the signal generated actually results from the target protein in question because it is spatially resolved from cross-reactions which would confound an ELISA system.

    Limitations of Traditional Techniques | A number of traditional techniques are available for the measurement of different functions or complexes of photosynthetic organisms. These include an array of enzyme and functional assays. A disadvantage of such approaches is that they require individually specialized sample harvesting and preparation techniques, and often specialized equipment or reagents for each assay. Therefore a single sample preparation cannot be used to quantify different protein complexes. Furthermore, many samples are not available in the quantities or preservation states necessary for multiple determinations of different protein complexes.

    Advantages of Immunodetections with Global Antibodies | When Global Antibodies are used for quantitative immunodetections even small, mixed samples from various harvesting procedures can be assessed for multiple complexes simultaneously. Since all detections employ a common solubilization protocol as a starting point, comparisons between complexes can be made with greater confidence. Since Global Antibodies recognize short highly conserved regions of the protein targets they can be applied to a very broad range of target organisms. They can also be applied with considerable confidence to uncharacterized or mixed samples.
    Quantitated recombinant protein standards have been generated to be used as a calibration with Global Antibodies. The target peptide antigen is perfectly conserved in these standard proteins, thus they can be applied for comparative quantitation of the target protein from all species.


    Standards and antibodies available


    Photosystem I Anti-PsaC (AS04 042) | standard: recombinant PsaC(AS04 042S)
    Photosystem II Anti-PsbA C-terminal (AS01 016, AS05 084) | Anti-PsbA N-terminal | (AS06 124) | standard: recombinant PsbA (AS01 016S) | Anti-PsbB (AS04 038) | Anti-PsbD (AS06 146) |
    ATP Synthase Anti-AtpB (AS03 030, AS05 085) | standard: recombinant AtpB (AS03 030S) |
    RuBisCO Anti-RbcL RbcL (AS01 017, AS03 037)| standard: Rubisco protein (AS03 017S)
    Nitrogen Metabolism: Anti-GlnA (AS01 018) | standard: recombinant GlnA (AS01 018S) |
    Anti-NifH (AS01 021A) | standard: recombinant NifH (AS01 021S)

    Methodology | Sample Preparation. Plant samples are generally ground with liquid nitrogen in a mortar and pestle. The resulting powder is transferred to a plastic tube. Algal samples can be either concentrated by centrifugation or, preferably, by filtration onto glass fiber filters.
    Solubilization is performed in Agrisera extraction buffer PEB (AS08 300) , 0.1mg/mL PefaBloc SC (AEBSF) protease inhibitor (Roche). Disruption is most optimally obtained through flash freezing of the sample in liquid nitrogen alternated with thawing by sonication with a microtip. This process can be repeated depending on the toughness of the sample. The sample is adjusted to 50 mM dithiothreitol and heated to 70°C for 5 minutes. Samples are cooled and centrifuged briefly prior to electrophoresis. Optimal quantitation is achieved using moderate sample loads per gel lane, generally 0.5 to 2.5 ug total protein, depending on the abundance of the target protein.
    Electrophoresis and Immunoblotting: Once solubilized, the proteins can be separated electrophoretically in a number of systems. We obtain optimal results with the Invitrogen NuPAGE gel system using Bis-Tris 4-12% gradient gels. Proteins are separated in MES SDS running buffer according to the manufacturer’s recommendations at 200 V for 35 minutes. The gels are transferred to PVDF in the same apparatus, the SureLock XCell blot module, for 60 minutes at 30 V for a single gel or 80 minutes for a pair. Following transfer the blots are blocked in 2%  blocking agent in tris buffered saline with 0.1% Tween 20 (TBS-T) for 1 hour at room temperature with gentle agitation. The blot is incubated with primary antibody, usually at 1:25 000 to 1:50 000 diluted in 2% blocking agent, for 1 hour at room temperature. For quantitation a relatively high primary antibody:target protein ratio gives more reliable results than immunoblots at low ratios of primary antibody:target protein.
    The blot is washed extensively in TBS-T (twice briefly, once for 15 minutes and three times for five minutes). The blot is incubated with secondary antibody, for example goat anti-rabbit IgG horse radish peroxidase conjugated, at 1:50,000 in 2% blocking agent, for 1h/RT with agitation. The blot is washed as above and developed with chemiluminescence detection reagent in mid picogram or extreme femtogram range.

    Quantitation | When quantitated standards are included on the blot, the samples can be quantitated using the available software. We obtain excellent quantitation with images captured on the Bio-Rad Fluor-S-Max or equivalent instrument using Bio-Rad QuantityOne software. The contour tool is used to select the area for quantitation and the values are background subtracted to give an adjusted volume in counts for each standard and sample. Using this protocol allows us to generate linear standard curves over 1-1.5 orders of magnitude range in target load. It is important to note that immunodetections usually show a strongly sigmoidal signal to load response curve, with a region of trace detection of low loads, a pseudolinear range and a region of saturated response with high loads. For immunoquantitation it is critical that the target proteins in the samples and the standard curve fall within the pseudolinear range. Our total detection range using this protocol spans over 2 orders of magnitude, but the quantifiable range is narrower.

    Example | Undergraduate students performed a light shift experiment on two cyanobacterial strains, Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 and Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. The students prepared 4 samples for each species and loaded 0.1 ug chlorophyll per lane. Standard lanes of PsbA (D1) protein contained 0.05 pmoles , 0.15 pmoles and 0.45 pmoles. The blots were processed as described above with the chicken anti-PsbA antibody used at 1:20,000 and rabbit anti-chicken IgY-HRP secondary antibodies at 1:50,000. The resulting blot is shown in Figure 1.




    Figure 1: An example immunoblot of samples of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 (lanes 1-4) and Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 (lanes 5-8). Molecular weight markers (MagicMark XP, Invitrogen) are in lane 9. Recombinant PsbA protein standards are loaded in lanes 10-12 at 0.05 pmoles, 0.15 pmoles and 0.45 pmoles.




    Standard curve

    Figure 2: Standard curve for the blot in Figure 1. Picomoles of quantitated standard is plotted on the X-axis versus the adjusted signal volume obtained on the Y-axis.



    Conclusion | Quantitative immunoblotting is a powerful but simple tool for the measurement of protein complexes from photosynthetic and other organisms. This technique can be applied to a wide range of species with excellent results, because Global Antibodies raised against conserved peptides can be shared across research on different species and research areas like: ecophysiology, microbial ecology, molecular physiology, proteomics and oceanography.

    References | Bouchard J, Suzanne Roy S, Campbell DA (2006) Ultraviolet-B Effects on the Photosystem II-D1 Protein of Phytoplankton Species and Natural Phytoplankton Communities Photochemistry and Photobiology, 82: 936-951
    Campbell DA, Cockshutt AM, Porankiewicz-Asplund J (2003) Analyzing Photosynthetic Complexes in Uncharacterized Species or Mixed Phytoplankton Communities using Global Antibodies. Physiologia Plantarum 119: 322-327
    MacKenzie TDB, Johnson JM, Cockshutt AM, Burns RA, Campbell DA (2005) Large reallocations of carbon, nitrogen and photosynthetic reductant among phycobilisomes, photosystems and Rubisco during light acclimation in Synechococcus elongatus are constrained in cells under low environmental inorganic carbon. Archives of Microbiology, 183: 190 - 202

    Recommended secondary antibodies: goat anti-rabbit HRP conjugated, goat anti-rabbit ALP conjugated

    Recommended chemiluminescent detection reagent: AgriseraECLBright

    Agrisera Western Blot protocol and video tutorials


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    Auroy Pascaline | 2020-07-27
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    This antibody has a very strong signal and specific signal around 30 kDa in C. reinhartii. The dilution of 1:10 000 works well probably with 1:20 000. I didn't test yet.
    Jun Liu | 2014-01-14
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    This antibody is always very good and gave a specific and strong signal around 30 kDa in Arabidopsis. The dilution of 1:20 000 works well and can be reused for at least 3 times.

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